An important objective of the Semantic Web is to make Electronic Commerce interactions more flexible and automated. To achieve this, standardization of ontologies, message content...
Abstract. We present a novel approach to representing uncertain information in ontologies based on design patterns. We provide a brief description of our approach, present its use ...
This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts in the medical domain. As an application of this method we developed a data dictionary whi...
It is often the case that agents within a system have distinct types of knowledge. Furthermore, whilst common goals may be agreed upon, the particular representations of the indiv...
The conceptual formalism supported by an ontology is not sufficient for handling vague information that is commonly found in many application domains. We describe how to introduce...